Immich•2mo ago

Am I backing up right location?

My original backup Borg script backed up docker/immich/upload*
But now I've created a profile my assets are under: docker/immich/library/library/harry

When I point to my variables in the backup script, the Borg config.yaml file, I'm afraid I'm not backing up the right data. I'd appreciate if you could help me figure out if I'm really backing up assets and database.

Here's my Borgmatic docker mounts:

/volume1/docker/immich/backups:/mnt/source/immich/backups:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/redis:/mnt/source/immich/redis:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/cache:/mnt/source/immich/cache:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/upload:/mnt/source/immich/upload:ro
/volume1/docker/borgmatic/repository:/mnt/borg-repository
/volume1/docker/borgmatic/borgmatic.d:/etc/borgmatic.d
/volume1/docker/borgmatic/config:/root/.config/borg
/volume1/docker/borgmatic/ssh:/root/.ssh
/volume1/docker/borgmatic/cache:/root/.cache/borg
/volume1/docker/borgmatic/state:/root/.local/state/borgmatic

And a snippet of my config.yaml for Borgmatic :

location:

/mnt/source/immich/upload
- /mnt/source/immich/backups/immich-database.sql.gz
repositories:
/mnt/borg-repository

And a snippet of the script, started by Synology task manager

#!/bin/bash

export IMMICH_DB_USERNAME="immichuser"
export IMMICH_DB_PASSWORD="immichpw"

IMMICH_POSTGRES_CONTAINER="immich-db"
BORG_CONTAINER="borgmatic"
DUMP_FILE_PATH="/volume1/docker/immich/backups/immich-database.sql"

docker start $BORG_CONTAINER
sleep 10 # 10 second delay to ensure container is running

docker exec -t -e PGPASSWORD=$IMMICH_DB_PASSWORD $IMMICH_POSTGRES_CONTAINER \
pg_dumpall --clean --if-exists --username=$IMMICH_DB_USERNAME | gzip > "${DUMP_FILE_PATH}.gz"

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "ERROR: Database dump failed. Please check the '$IMMICH_POSTGRES_CONTAINER' container logs for details."
exit 1
fi

docker exec $BORG_CONTAINER borgmatic -v 1

config_copy.yaml1.44KB

immich_backup.sh1.24KB

Immich•10/26/25, 11:00 PM

:wave: Hey @Catalina28TO,

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Zeus•10/26/25, 11:02 PM

Have you tried making a test restore of your backup yet?

Catalina28TOOP•10/26/25, 11:19 PM

That's a given, but I want to make my best efforts at understanding where Immich, stores my data.
Oh...wait a minute. I see a while new subdirectory structure including upload, under the library folder. And yes, the chunks are there:

harry1@Solutions:/volume1/docker/immich/library$ ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 1 harry1 users 92 Oct 25 10:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 harry1 users 144 Oct 26 03:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 122 Oct 26 02:01 backups
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86 Oct 25 11:44 encoded-video
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24 Oct 26 14:19 library
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14 Oct 25 10:49 profile
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158 Oct 26 10:37 thumbs
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86 Oct 25 14:07 upload

harry1@Solutions:/volume1/docker/immich/library/upload$ ls -al
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86 Oct 25 14:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 harry1 users 92 Oct 25 10:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1024 Oct 25 14:47 8a02d543-7ff7-4650-9744-782e1b4c9825
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Oct 26 14:18 .immich

So clearly I have to redo everything, my docker mounts, my Borgmatic config and my shell script. Am I on the right track? But where is the database? There is nothing under the db directory:

Again stop. I just realized I'm supposed to backup the dump file, which the script snippet below does create. I think I'm closer.

IMMICH_POSTGRES_CONTAINER="immich-db"
BORG_CONTAINER="borgmatic"
DUMP_FILE_PATH="/volume1/docker/immich/backups/immich-database.sql"

docker start $BORG_CONTAINER
sleep 10 # 10 second delay to ensure container is running

docker exec -t -e PGPASSWORD=$IMMICH_DB_PASSWORD $IMMICH_POSTGRES_CONTAINER \
pg_dumpall --clean --if-exists --username=$IMMICH_DB_USERNAME | gzip > "${DUMP_FILE_PATH}.gz"

Catalina28TOOP•10/26/25, 11:35 PM

I have changed the mount portion in the Borgmatic container from this:

/volume1/docker/immich/backups:/mnt/source/immich/backups:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/redis:/mnt/source/immich/redis:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/cache:/mnt/source/immich/cache:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/upload:/mnt/source/immich/upload:ro

to this:

/volume1/docker/immich/backups:/mnt/source/immich/backups:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/redis:/mnt/source/immich/redis:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/cache:/mnt/source/immich/cache:ro
/volume1/docker/immich/library:/mnt/source/immich/upload:ro

I've kept this: mnt/source/immich/upload:ro so that I don't have to change the bogmatic config and the script. Does that sound like the correct course of action? The entire library including anything in library/upload will be backed up.

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